This text provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children's access to certain knowledge - understood as 'difficult knowledge' - and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood.
This text provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children's access to certain knowledge - understood as 'difficult knowledge' - and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood.
Shifting the discourse from a focus on academic language to the more dynamic but less researched construct of academic literacies, this volume addresses three key questions: What constitutes academic literacy? What does academic literacy development in adolescent multilingual st…
This book offers fresh insight and understanding of the many ways in which children, youth and adults may find their paths to mathematics. The chapters of the volume offer and analyse promising new ways into mathematics. The focus is on spaces and modalities of learning, dialogu…
This book offers fresh insight and understanding of the many ways in which children, youth and adults may find their paths to mathematics. The chapters of the volume offer and analyse promising new ways into mathematics. The focus is on spaces and modalities of learning, dialogu…
Between the turn of the twentieth century and the "Brown V. Board of Education" decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about "race" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth…
Handbook of urban educational leadership
Internationalizing Teacher Education in the United States offers practical and theoretical explanations of teacher educators' vital role in the education of culturally diverse student populations in the US. It examines issues surrounding the internationalization of teacher educa…
As countries become increasingly interdependent, student populations in the United States are becoming more culturally diverse. These students' transnational perspectives present significant challenges to teachers, but a disconnect exists between the skills teachers need and tho…
Internationalizing Teacher Education in the United States offers practical and theoretical explanations of teacher educators' vital role in the education of culturally diverse student populations in the US. It examines issues surrounding the internationalization of teacher educa…
"This book addresses the role of internationalization as conceptual framework for U.S. teacher education in a time of globalization. The authors especially believe that it is helpful for new teachers to have a strong foundation in order to ensure that the students that they work…
"This book addresses the role of internationalization as conceptual framework for U.S. teacher education in a time of globalization. The authors especially believe that it is helpful for new teachers to have a strong foundation in order to ensure that the students that they work…
Internationalizing Teacher Education in the United States offers practical and theoretical explanations of teacher educators' vital role in the education of culturally diverse student populations in the US. It examines issues surrounding the internationalization of teacher educa…